Library Research Guide for HISTORY 12Q: U.S. Latinx History

There are many helpful specialized scholarly encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks in Widener and other libraries that can give you an overview of a specific topic. You can try searching in HOLLIS for your subject (see the HOLLIS page for finding the proper Subject terms) plus the words encyclopedias or dictionaries. Thus: “United States” AND "Hispanic Americans" AND (encyclopedias OR dictionaries).

Latinx

Latino History section from the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on American History

The Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States, ed. by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 4 vols.
Online access

Latino history and culture: an encyclopedia, ed. by David J. Leonard and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2010, 2 vols.
HOLLIS record
Online access via Internet Archive

Historical dictionary of U.S. Latino literature, by Donaldo W. Urioste, Francisco A. Lomelí, and María Joaquina Villaseñor. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017], 460 p.
HOLLIS record

Key terms in Latino/a cultural and literary studies, by Paul Allatson. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007, 281 p. 
HOLLIS record

Latino America: a state-by-state encyclopedia, ed. by Mark Overmyer-Velázquez. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008, 2 vols.
HOLLIS record
Online access via Internet Archive

Immigration

The Oxford handbook of American immigration and ethnicity, edited by Ronald H. Bayor. New York : Oxford University Press, 2013-2016.
HOLLIS Record

The Oxford handbook of ethnicity, crime, and immigration, ed. by Sandra M. Bucerius and Michael Tonry. Oxford; NY: Oxford University Press, 2014, 960 pages
HOLLIS Record

Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

American immigration: an encyclopedia of political, social, and cultural change, ed. by James Ciment and John Radzilowski. 2nd ed. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2014. 4 volumes.
HOLLIS Record

Anti-immigration in the United States: a historical encyclopedia, ed. by Kathleen R. Arnold. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, 2011,  2 v.
HOLLIS Record

Dictionary of American immigration history, ed. by Francesco Cordasco Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990, 784 p.
HOLLIS Record

Encyclopedia of American immigration, ed. by James Ciment. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 4 v.
HOLLIS Record

Immigration and asylum: from 1900 to the present, ed. by Matthew J. Gibney and Randall Hansen. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2005. 3 v.
HOLLIS Record

The making of modern immigration:an encyclopedia of people and ideas, ed. by Patrick J. Hayes. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2012. 1 online resource (865 p.)
HOLLIS Record with Online Version

Undocumented immigrants in the United States: an encyclopedia of their experience, ed. by Anna Ochoa O'Leary. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, 2014. 2 volumes
HOLLIS Record

U.S. immigration: a reference handbook, by Michael C. LeMay. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004, 283 p.
HOLLIS record with online table of contents
--Offers historical overview of post-1965 immigration policy. Lists organizations, with bibliography of books, government reports, and websites. Chronology (1740-2002).